I've read some of the posts concerning mice in the home with ferrets.I'd like to add my 0.2. I have a field behind my place & another in fronf.My neighbors don't cut their grass but maybe once all summer.One the one side of me. One day,I thought I saw a mouse run by in my side vision.I'm like,no way!! I had a 23# cat,& all these shelter kids would kill it.Stinkin Cat (RIP) wouldn't eat them but loved to play with them until they died. Couple days later,I found mice droppings in a empty cage.I raced to the phone to call my pest control company,as they have been coming to my home monthly & I pay them to keep all creepy bugs,mice away from here. So, Patrick comes & sets out these weird looking disks with a powder in them that is not poisin to other animals,as I have feral cats in my neighborhood.It will just make the mice inmobile,not actually killing them. I'm thinking,ok,this will work.Wrong!!!! The mice had chewed thru my walls & whereever to have access to my home.They liked the ferret room best.And why not?Lots of fresh food/water.The ferrets never even tried to kill them!! I have several litter boxes in both all the cages & thru out the room.It didn't scare them(mice ) a bit. I set up mouse traps in empty cages,baited with a smear of Peanut butter. Made sure that all the cage doors to the cages I used(3) were locked,so no ferts could get to the traps.I killed 5 in 2 days.Tiny little field mice.While so pretty,I still didn't want them to reside with me. I have 2 sick cages that I have baited traps in,doors locked to them,& am so thankful that in weeks now,no mice. Sandi Heaven Scent Ferret Rescue/shelter http://fuzzyslave.tripod.com [Posted in FML issue 4342]